page_title: John Acland (died 1553)
section_title: Marriage and children
hierarchical_section_title: John Acland (died 1553) / Marriage and children
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Hugh Radcliff/Redcliffe of Stepney, Collection of Killerton House, Devon, owned by National Trust. Purchased 2001 from Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Bt (b. 1939), from Sprydon House. Oil on panel, 578 x 432 mm (22 3/4 x 17 in ), National Trust Inventory Number 922319. His daughter and co-heiress Margaret Radcliff was the wife of John Acland (d.1553) of Acland, whose descendants later built Killerton House
context_page_description: John Acland (died 1553) was described as "the first of the [Acland] family to emerge from the shadows of history as a visible human being". His great-grandson was the Royalist colonel Sir John Acland, 1st Baronet of Columb John. Little if anything is known of his life and career, he was possibly a minor Tudor official, but he is chiefly remembered for his surviving portrait which is displayed at Killerton House, the earliest surviving image of an Acland and one of the most cherished in that family's former collection, now owned by the National Trust.
  He was seated at Acland Barton in the parish of Landkey, near Barnstaple in North Devon, which had been the family's seat since 1155. The Acland family is believed to have migrated to England from Flanders soon after the Norman Conquest and were in the late 20th century probably the oldest surviving landed family in Devon, which by the 19th century possessed a huge estate in the West Country of almost 40,000 acres.
context_section_description: John Acland married Margaret Radcliff, a daughter and co-heiress of Hugh Radcliff of Stepney. They had the following children:
  Hugh Acland (c. 1543–1622) of Acland, eldest son and heir, Sheriff of Devon in 1611. At the age of about 70 he became heir to his wealthy and childless younger brother, Sir John Acland of Columb John, Broadclyst. He was buried in Landkey Church on 22 May 1622.
  Sir John Acland (died 14 February 1620), knighted at the Tower of London 15 November 1603/4, MP for Devon in 1604, Sheriff of Devon in 1608. He purchased the estate of Columb John in the parish of Broadclyst, Devon. He is one of John Prince's Worthies of Devon.
  Gertrude Acland, married Guy Bonvile of Street, Somerset.
  Dorothy Acland, married Robert Smith of Mucheney, Somerset.
  After Acland's death, Margaret remarried to John Brett of Whitestaunton.
caption: Portrait of Hugh Radcliff of Stepney, Acland's father-in-law. Collection of Killerton House, Devon
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